Virtually everyone claims to be doing Unit Testing, but there is a surprising amount of disagreement as to how unit testing is defined. Let us see what the authorities on the subject have to say about it. What follows is mainly quotations from reputable sources, with some minimal commentary by me.

It is not a law.

It never was a law.

An observation is all that it ever was, or a prediction, but not a law.

And surprise, it does not hold true anymore.

I just wrote a code review comment that I feel particularly smug about.

The code I was reviewing:

  class PointClouds ...

My comment:

Abstract

A software testing tool is presented, which uses dependency analysis to greatly optimize the process of running tests.

What causes homosexuality? The predominant understanding is that the causes are genetic, but this seems to be in conflict with the notion of natural selection: an individual who does not reproduce is a dead-end for the genes that they carry; therefore, the 'gay gene' should have gone extinct. A number of hypotheses have been proposed, attempting to resolve this paradox, but they are not very convincing. In this post I present a couple of my own hypotheses, which I believe do a better job at resolving the paradox.

The Stack Overflow Podcast awarded me with what they call a lifeboat!

This happened in Podcast 312 "We're building a web app, got any advice?" (2021/02/12)

The "episode notes" end with the following statement:

Our lifeboat of the week goes to Mike Nakis, who answered the question: What is the difference between memberwise copy, bitwise copy, shallow copy and deep copy?